tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613185.post6651667835726811645..comments2023-10-26T05:12:19.629-07:00Comments on PonderIt: Truman Madsen MemoriesBradley Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030210881782328907noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613185.post-10075474169969970682009-11-16T08:56:45.472-07:002009-11-16T08:56:45.472-07:00I love that story about the sacrament. I'll ha...I love that story about the sacrament. I'll have to remember that next time I'm in Jerusalem.Bradley Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06030210881782328907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6613185.post-66235351693805301722009-11-14T19:58:47.966-07:002009-11-14T19:58:47.966-07:00Yes, he was quite important in my family's spi...Yes, he was quite important in my family's spiritual culture as well. My mother loved all his tapes (Joseph Smith, the temple lectures, and on and on) for as long as I could remember and so we heard them a lot when we rode in her car. And when his Presidents of the Church lectures came out on CD we all listened to those as well. Sent them to my bro on his mission and he gobbled them up and then gave them to a new convert. And when he was off the mission and back to BYU he took that Anne Madsen Isaiah class you talked about and practically fell in love with her as well. If they'd offered to adopt him into their family I'm sure he would have dropped us in a heartbeat.<br /><br />I'm sure it didn't hurt in bro Madsen's impressive story collecting that he was a grandson of Heber J Grant and therefore a bit more of an Insider than the average Church scholar. I have a particular love for Pres Grant, and it didn't surprise me at all when I learned that they were related.<br /><br />My favorite moment with Bro Madsen was when he interviewed me for my ecclesiastical recommendation for the Jerusalem Center program (when I was also in that student stake). He made me promise that every Sunday I was in Jerusalem, taking the sacrament while looking out on the Old City through gorgeous arched windows that I would say a little prayer for poor Bro Madsen, back in Provo, taking the sacrament on campus in a depressing windowless classroom.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10389656325499233438noreply@blogger.com